By Akinwale Kasali
For the fourth time in less than two months, gunmen suspected to be bandits have struck again.
This time, they kidnapped some students of the Federal College of Forestry in Kaduna. They stormed the school about 3 a.m. on Friday.
Mohammed Jalige, spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command confirmed the attack and abduction.
He told Channels TV that the attackers invaded the College located at Mando area, not far from the Nigerian Defence Academy.
Jalige could not confirm the exact number of students abducted. He said security operatives were mobilised to the College upon hearing about the attack. According to him, the security men were able to secure the remaining students.
Bandits operating in the North west part of Nigeria have turned schools into their playground, kidnapping hapless students.
The last mass kidnapping of students was in Jangebe, Zamfara state. An estimated 275 schoolgirls were abducted. They were released few days after some negotiation. .
President Buhari had vowed then that the Jangebe kidnap would be the last under his watch. Sadly, the new abduction of students in Kaduna further raises doubt about the seriousness in the words of the President.
The Niger State Governor, Sani Bello, whose State had also suffered the same fate lamented that his Government was deceived by bandits who collected money from it, and used the money to buy arms.
It would be recalled that a Pan Yoruba Group had raised fears that there are plans by bandits to storm Schools in the South west to abduct students in Ondo, Osun and Ekiti States.
These abductions are coming less than five weeks the new Service Chiefs came on board.
